The Atelier
A studio of twenty-six hands.
Eightypodia was founded in the winter of 2019 by Ines Vasconcelos and Margot Aymard above a bakery on Rua das Flores, with one bolt of red Stewart tartan and a borrowed Pfaff sewing machine. Today we are thirteen seamstresses, four pattern cutters, two finishers, and a dog called Loro, working out of the same building — three flights up, second door on the left.
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We do not chase seasons
Our collection grows by two or three shirts a year. A pattern stays in production for as long as it deserves to.
02
We do not put our name on the outside
No embroidered logos, no labels stitched to cuffs. The shirt is the brand.
03
We mend what we sell
Every wool shirt comes with lifetime repairs — frayed cuffs, missing buttons, the lot. Mail it to us, we'll send it back.
Where the cloth comes from
Our wools are woven at Lanificio Cerruti in Biella, Italy — a mill founded in 1881 — and at Abraham Moon in Yorkshire. Our brushed cottons come from Têxtil J.F. Almeida in Vila Nova de Famalicão, a hundred kilometres up the coast. Cashmere is sourced through a cooperative of nomadic herders in the Alashan plateau, combed in spring and spun in Hangzhou.
Everything else — the cutting, the sewing, the buttoning, the steaming, the boxing — happens here in Porto. Most of our seamstresses have been with the studio longer than the studio has had a website.
If you'd like to visit the atelier, write to care@eightypodia.com. We open the door to a handful of people each month, by appointment.